Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face, will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 about making AI research and models open and accessible. The session will focus on how open-source development, rat...
Silicon Valley is experiencing a surge in investment for reinforcement learning (RL) environments, with AI labs like Anthropic reportedly planning to spend over $1 billion on these training simulations. These environment...
Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of AI startup Sierra, confirmed that the AI industry is currently in a bubble similar to the dot-com era, agreeing with Sam Altman that many will lose significant money. Despite...
The AI industry is experiencing a strategic shift where foundation models like GPT and Claude are becoming interchangeable commodities, undermining the competitive advantages of major AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. S...
Venture investors poured $6 billion into robotics startups in the first seven months of 2025, making it one of the few non-AI categories experiencing funding growth. Industry veterans argue this surge stems from a decade...
OpenAI announced a non-binding agreement with Microsoft to transition its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation (PBC), potentially allowing the company to raise additional capital and eventually go public. The...
Microsoft will incorporate Anthropic's AI models alongside OpenAI's technology in its Office 365 applications including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. This strategic shift reflects growing tensions between Microso...
OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team, which shapes AI personality and reduces sycophancy, by merging it with the larger Post Training team under new leadership. The team's founder Joanne Jang is starting a new...
A federal judge declined to break up Google's Chrome browser, reasoning that AI rivals could provide sufficient competition to keep the tech giant in check. Meanwhile, Atlassian made a significant $610 million investment...
Karen Hao, author of "Empire of AI," discusses OpenAI's evolution from a nonprofit "laughingstock" to a $90 billion company pursuing AGI at rapid speeds. She argues that OpenAI abandoned its original humanitarian mission...
